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  • Infosys veteran Mohandas Pai’s 3one4 Capital is the latest addition to the investors on board

    Koo raises $4.1mn as funding

    By Our Staff

     

    Microblogging platform Koo has raised $4.1 million as part of its Series A funding. Infosys veteran Mohandas Pai’s 3one4 Capital is the latest addition to the investors on board. Accel Partners, Kalaari Capital, Blume Ventures and Dream Incubator also participated in the round.

    Said Aprameya Radhakrishna, Co-Founder and CEO, Koo: “Existing microblogging platforms have not been able to grow beyond the English-speaking population. Koo enables free expression of thoughts and opinions for every Indian irrespective of the language preference. Koo will amplify the daily voices of India on an Indian platform.”

    Added Anurag Ramdasan, Principal, 3one4 Capital: “Koo is a very valuable and powerful platform in the Indian context. Social platforms focused on India need to be highly contextualised to the audience here beyond languages and must include community, moderation and content relevance. Both Aprameya and Mayank are proven entrepreneurs and have built large internet businesses before. We are happy to partner with them to make this atmanirbhar vision become a reality and to build sustainable and socially relevant platforms.”

     

     

  • The collaboration to deliver the election opinions in Indian languages

    Koo partners with Jan Ki Baat for elections

    By Our Staff

     

    India’s largest micro-blogging platform Koo announces its partnership with Jan Ki Baat to further reach and encourage Indian audiences to express their thoughts and opinions on everyday trending news.

    As part of the partnership, Pradeep Bhandari will use Koo, as a platform to run opinion polls, post the latest updates on election analysis and allow followers on Koo to express their thoughts and opinions on the elections.  This election year Jan Ki Baat will initiate conversations in regional languages, set the agenda & shape the narrative on Indian politics and Indian elections through factual, educative, data driven on-ground analysis through the Koo platform.

    Said Aprameya Radhakrishna, Co-Founder and CEO of Koo: “Pradeep is the master of election result predictions and his on the ground approach is what the youth of India would love to follow. The tie up with Pradeep and Jan Ki Baat will allow a vast audience who love local Indian languages to connect with him as he travels across India to bring the latest on elections in Indian languages on Koo.”

    Added Bhandari, who is Founder and CEO, Jan Ki Baat: “As India completes 75 years of independence in 2022, Indian languages will strongly shape & dominate the discourse of patriotic youth of India. I have personally experienced the power of Indian languages while travelling across 400 constituencies & connecting with people. Collaboration with ‘Koo’ will help ‘Jan Ki Baat’ reach the masses and involve them in this patriotic journey.”

     

     

  • Pitchfork will help build rep through multi-channel outreach

    Koo names Pitchfork Partners for comms

    By Our Staff

     

    Koo, the microblogging platform, has appointed Pitchfork Partners Strategic Consulting as its communications partner.

     

    Said Aprameya Radhakrishna, Co-Founder, Koo: “Koo has Indianised the micro-blogging format by creating an immersive language experience. Creators can now express themselves freely in their native language and users can follow them and their thoughts. We understand India’s language diversity is unique and a global solution doesn’t work for our people. We are committed to being a platform that helps create and carry the Voice of India to a billion Indians. We are happy to partner with Pitchfork to support us in our journey and take the platform’s message to a larger audience.”

     

    Added Jaideep Shergill, Co-Founder, Pitchfork Partners: “We’re delighted to partner with Koo. Our diverse experience with startups across sectors will facilitate us achieving milestones together. Technology is the need of the hour and apps such as Koo help the cause.”